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Linode Dedicated 4GB

Amsterdam, NL

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 9, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
1,307
Faster than 56% of 2 vCPU plans
Geekbench 7 multi-core
1,618
Faster than 36% of 2 vCPU plans
Disk 4K IOPS
85,716
fio random read and write, 50/50
Monthly price at test time
$36.00
45 multi-core points per dollar
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    Linode
  • Plan
    Dedicated 4GB
  • Location
    Amsterdam, NL
  • vCPU
    2
  • RAM
    4 GB
  • Storage
    80 GB SSD
  • Network
    4 Gbps
  • OS image
    linode/ubuntu24.04
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 9, 2026, 21:13:00 UTC
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CPU

Version Single-core Multi-core
Geekbench 7 1,307 1,618 Geekbench Browser

Scores from different Geekbench versions aren't comparable with each other. Charts only use Geekbench 7.

Geekbench 7 workloads

Workload Single-core Multi-core
File Compression
1,381
34th of 61
1,876
42nd of 57
Navigation
1,329
30th of 61
Single-core only
HTML5 Browser
1,298
32nd of 61
Single-core only
PDF Viewer
1,319
33rd of 61
Single-core only
Photo Library
1,163
34th of 61
1,461
45th of 57
Clang
1,151
33rd of 61
1,451
47th of 57
Text Processing
1,213
32nd of 61
1,358
46th of 57
Asset Compression
1,348
34th of 61
1,721
45th of 57
HDR
1,384
28th of 61
1,537
43rd of 57
Photo Editor
1,131
40th of 61
1,731
40th of 57
Ray Tracer
1,373
28th of 61
1,899
43rd of 57
Structure from Motion
1,317
34th of 61
Single-core only
Game Physics
1,283
32nd of 61
Single-core only
Video Encoder
1,341
28th of 61
Single-core only
Audio Encoder
1,410
34th of 61
Single-core only
Video Player
1,534
29th of 61
Single-core only

Rank among the 61 runs with Geekbench 7 workload scores. Bars are relative to the best run. Geekbench doesn't run every workload multi-core, so some rows only have a single-core score.

Memory, TLS and scheduler

Memory bandwidth (STREAM)

Test Result Runs Spread
Copy higher is better 44.7 GB/s 3 1.93%
Scale higher is better 30.1 GB/s 3 1.15%
Add higher is better 32.4 GB/s 3 1.36%
Triad higher is better 32.3 GB/s 3 1.59%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

TLS and crypto (OpenSSL)

Test Result Runs Spread
RSA 4096 signs higher is better 222/s 3 0.795%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 14,517/s 3 0.176%
SHA-256 higher is better 1.16 GB/s 3 0.121%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 3.66 GB/s 3 0.309%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 2.54 GB/s 3 0.163%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Scheduler latency (schbench)

Test Result Runs Spread
Request latency, median lower is better 10.7 ms 3 5.1%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 186/s 3 5.1%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 22 ms 3 28.6%
Requests per second, average higher is better 181/s 2 4.59%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 167.2 MB/s (42,802 IOPS) 167.6 MB/s (42,914 IOPS) 334.8 MB/s (85,716 IOPS)
64K 1.44 GB/s (23,614 IOPS) 1.45 GB/s (23,738 IOPS) 2.89 GB/s (47,352 IOPS)
512K 4.27 GB/s (8,750 IOPS) 4.5 GB/s (9,214 IOPS) 8.77 GB/s (17,964 IOPS)
1M 4.55 GB/s (4,663 IOPS) 4.86 GB/s (4,974 IOPS) 9.41 GB/s (9,637 IOPS)

fio random read and write, 50/50, run by YABS against the boot disk.

Network

IPv4 transfer speed

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Target Protocol Send Receive
Clouvider, London, UK (10G) IPv4 88.2 Mbps 6.92 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 4.41 Gbps 9.28 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 8.3 Mbps 1.34 Gbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 8 Mbps 1.24 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 11.3 Mbps 2.79 Gbps

Public iperf3 servers vary in capacity and availability. Compare a target only with itself over time.

Datastores

PostgreSQL

fsync speed (pg_test_fsync)

Method Operations per second Time per operation
One 8 kB write
open_datasync 10,212 0.098 ms
fdatasync 5,670 0.176 ms
fsync 3,665 0.273 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 3,909 0.256 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 5,180 0.193 ms
fdatasync 5,167 0.194 ms
fsync 3,519 0.284 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 2,052 0.487 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 3,504 0.285 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 1,486 0.673 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 1,025 0.976 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 379 2.64 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 189 5.29 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 3,075 0.325 ms
write, close, fsync 3,271 0.306 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 397,086 0.003 ms

pg_test_fsync against the Docker volume Postgres keeps its data on. fdatasync is Linux's default wal_sync_method.

pgbench at scale 10

Workload Clients Transactions/s Median p95 p99 p99.9 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 1,222 0.794 ms 0.948 ms 1.26 ms 3.55 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 3,064 2.41 ms 4.09 ms 5.8 ms 15.5 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,102 8.33 ms 22.9 ms 39.1 ms 66.9 ms 0
Read only 1 13,218 0.072 ms 0.094 ms 0.107 ms 0.26 ms 0
Read only 8 34,134 0.209 ms 0.33 ms 0.406 ms 0.9 ms 0
Read only 32 35,212 0.748 ms 1.15 ms 1.53 ms 2.93 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 1.73 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

pgbench at scale 100

Workload Clients Transactions/s Median p95 p99 p99.9 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 1,074 0.879 ms 1.21 ms 1.6 ms 3.29 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 2,796 2.75 ms 4.24 ms 5.81 ms 10.6 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 3,518 8.54 ms 13.8 ms 18.5 ms 27.8 ms 0
Read only 1 9,401 0.093 ms 0.143 ms 0.399 ms 0.949 ms 0
Read only 8 26,248 0.272 ms 0.463 ms 0.698 ms 2.26 ms 0
Read only 32 27,213 1 ms 1.63 ms 2.45 ms 4.74 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 16.8 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

MySQL

sysbench OLTP

Workload Threads Transactions/s Queries/s Median p95 p99 Errors
Read/write 1 267 5,332 3.55 ms 5.09 ms 7.99 ms 0
Read/write 8 522 10,450 14.7 ms 24.8 ms 34.3 ms 0
Read/write 32 573 11,466 53.9 ms 92.4 ms 121 ms 0
Read only 1 542 8,679 1.79 ms 2.22 ms 2.62 ms 0
Read only 8 1,052 16,830 7.3 ms 10.8 ms 14 ms 0
Read only 32 1,052 16,825 29.7 ms 40.4 ms 49.2 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 10.3 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 37,925 34,477 1.42 ms 4.22 ms 6.56 ms
1:1 set:get 37,578 18,789 1.43 ms 4.13 ms 6.4 ms

1,000,000 keys of 32 bytes. 64 connections over 2 threads, 60 s per ratio.

Web frameworks

Framework Fortunes req/s Single query req/s JSON req/s Fortunes p99 at 256 connections
Next.js The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown.
Express The results arrived but couldn't be read, so no numbers are shown.
Fastify fastify-postgres 4,467 6,521 15,250 117 ms
NestJS nestjs 2,846 3,031 9,298 167 ms
Nuxt nuxt 3,874 5,753 12,693 465 ms
FastAPI fastapi 2,220 2,605 9,405 570 ms
Django django-postgresql 1,085 1,314 2,747 460 ms
Rails rails 1,823 2,481 7,848 278 ms
Laravel laravel 514 523 954 546 ms
Symfony symfony 632 704 1,828 662 ms

Peak requests per second across the 64 and 256 connection levels, measured with wrk. Each test has to pass the TechEmpower response checks first, or it's marked invalid.

WooCommerce

Page mix

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Home page 1.42 1.1 s 1.38 s 1.45 s 0%
Shop page 1.42 1.46 s 1.75 s 1.81 s 0%
Category page 1.42 956 ms 1.52 s 1.75 s 0%
Product page 1.42 1.03 s 1.25 s 1.41 s 0%
Product search 1.42 877 ms 1.07 s 1.14 s 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 1.37 4.16 s 5.23 s 5.46 s 0%
Shop page 1.37 5.6 s 6.54 s 6.78 s 0%
Category page 1.37 4.91 s 5.92 s 6.03 s 0%
Product page 1.37 4.27 s 4.77 s 4.88 s 0%
Product search 1.37 3.91 s 4.43 s 4.48 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 2.68 1.23 s 1.53 s 1.72 s 0%
Cart 2.68 978 ms 1.36 s 1.47 s 0%
Checkout 2.68 766 ms 995 ms 1.17 s 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 2.69 4.06 s 5.07 s 5.27 s 0%
Cart 2.69 4.32 s 4.93 s 5.14 s 0%
Checkout 2.56 3.34 s 3.85 s 4.04 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 63 to 71 s per level. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 2 2
CPU Dedicated vCPU 0% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 4 GB 3.8 GiB
Storage 80 GB SSD 78.2 GiB
Architecture x86_64 x86_64
Virtualization KVM KVM

Guests usually report slightly less RAM and disk than advertised because of kernel reservations and filesystem overhead.

Detected hardware

CPU model
AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor
CPU cores
2
CPU frequency
2000 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
No
RAM reported
3.8 GiB
Swap reported
496 MiB
Disk reported
78.2 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
0% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-134-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
Yes

Advertised at test time

Plan
Dedicated 4GB
Product line
Dedicated CPU
Location
Amsterdam, NL
vCPU
2 dedicated vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
4 GB
Storage
80 GB SSD
Virtualization
KVM
Network
4 Gbps
Transfer
4 TB
Port 25
On request
Monthly price at test time
$36.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.054
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 9, 2026, 21:15:02 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 9, 2026, 21:13:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 9, 2026, 21:14:56 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 9, 2026, 21:14:56 UTC
Completed
Oct 9, 2026, 22:36:06 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 9, 2026, 22:36:06 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.075
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